From: Lloyd Zusman <ljz@...>
Date: 2005-05-24T18:08:34+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] HighLine 0.6.1

James Edward Gray II <james@grayproductions.net> writes:

> [ ... ]
>
> Can you tell me what the following code prints?
>
> require "rubygems"
> require "highline"
>
> p HighLine::CHARACTER_MODE
>
> __END__

  # irb
  irb(main):001:0> require "rubygems"
  => true
  irb(main):002:0> require "highline"
  LoadError: No such file to load -- highline
          from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9/rubygems/custom_require.rb:18:in `require__'
          from /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9/rubygems/custom_require.rb:18:in `require'
          from (irb):2
  irb(main):003:0> 
  irb(main):004:0* p HighLine::CHARACTER_MODE
  NameError: uninitialized constant HighLine
          from (irb):4
  irb(main):005:0> 

This is weird, because prior to this, "gem install highline" worked, and
I indeed have the /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.9/gems/highline-0.6.1
directory and all of its contents.

So I went into that directory and typed "ruby setup.rb".  It ran fine,
and immediately thereafter, I ran the code again:

  # irb
  irb(main):001:0> require "rubygems"
  => true
  irb(main):002:0> require "highline"
  => true
  irb(main):003:0> p HighLine::CHARACTER_MODE
  "termios"
  => nil

So now it looks like there are two problems:

1. rubygems installs don't always work for me

2. termios doesn't appear to compile properly on my system, although
   it seems to install


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